Morphine (group)

Morphine is an American rock group founded in 1989 with Cambridge, in the Massachusetts, by the singer/bass player Mark Sandman, old of Treat Her Right, and Dana Colley (sax tenor and baritone) which played before Boston within the Three Collers. It is a scarcity in the world of the Rock-and-roll and the Blues, because it does not use a Guitare. The trio is based on a low base of , a Saxophone with raucous sonorities, and songs with the ironic and disillusioned tone. Thus in the medium of the Years 1990, the group profited from good a Notoriété primarily which had with the word of mount and also with very good criticisms of the specialized press.

Sandman and Colley engage the beater Jerome Dupree to supplement the team. The group leaves its first album Good on an independent label Accurate/Distortion label in 1991; this album is brought out at Rykodisc Records in 1992. Good was very well received and passes much on the waves of the university radios whereas criticisms of the reviews " alternatives" are eulogistic. Dupree leaves the group and is replaced by Billy Conway that Sandman had known within Treat Her Right.

The made reception with Good had prepared the ground and Cure for Pain left in 1993 is a success even broader, success amplified by the promotional tour with the the United States and in Europe. The sales reach 300.000 copies then, quantifies impressive for a Independent label. Yes , the third album left in 1995 makes it possible Morphine to continue on its impetus.

But maintaining the large labels are interested in them and their contract is repurchased in Rykodisc by fine Dreamworks 1996. Like Swimming is the first album which leaves to Dreamworks in spring 1997 and criticism remains good. But the July 3rd 1999, Sandman collapses at the time of a concert with Rome, terrace by an heart attack at the 47 years age. The Night , album posthumous leaves the year according to follow-up by live the Bootleg Detroit to the autumn 2000.

Discography

Albums studio

Albums live and compilations

  • B-Sides and Otherwise - 1997
  • Bootleg Strait - 2000
  • The Best off Morphine: 1992-1995 - 2003
  • Sandbox: The Mark Sandman Box Set - 2004

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